Document, Theater - Playbill for Garden Players -"The Enchanted Garden" and "Mag-Jongg"
1918 – 1922 (Date manufactured/created)
Paper
Playbill for Garden Plays -"The Enchanted Garden" and "Mag-Jongg" by Constance Grenelle Pignatelli (nee Wilcox) for a c.1918-1922 one act play. Besides play details and actors, also listed are 45 "Patronesses", all women, in alphabetical order.Madison was home to the country's earliest summer theater. In 1918, Constance Grenelle Wilcox and Alice B. Keating founded the Woodland Garden Plays. The first performances were held in the woods behind the Wilcox home on Island Avenue, but later moved into an old barn on the property, called the "Playbarn". The plays were popular fundraisers for charitable causes including post WWI relief, the Madison Historical Society and the preservation of the Lee Academy.
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